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Originally Posted by graciegirl
What good is life without (fill in the blank)?
Pretty good. With life you have options...………………….I VOTE FOR LIFE. Yes, I have thought about it again...yes I do.
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Oh, I can think of a multitude of scenarios where "life" in and of itself would not be considered tenable for most.
I'm going to assume that most everyone here worked for a living, and either had some kind of pension or other investments that afforded them the ability to move here after their working life.
Many - as in millions - of people are now unemployed and there's no guarantee that their erstwhile employers will even return, regardless of an SBA loan. The states are going to be broke and looking for the feds to bail them out. You can already hear governors screaming about that. Of course, the feds bailing out the states just means that federal income tax rates have to go up. If the federal government doesn't bail out the states, the states have to come to you to make up the shortfalls, or cut a lot of programs and services - laying people off in the process. And printing more money (like the Federal Reserve does) is only devaluing the money already in circulation. Your dollars are worth less.
There needs to be a balance between health concerns and economic vitality, even if that involves risk.